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bouied over mitt romney's victory over president obama, let me tell you how i watched. i watched the debate within the area of my world. i watched it towards making you some money. tweeting every potential stock idea triggered by either gentleman. ♪ how can you try to make money from the debate? let me parse it for you. show you how it's done. going over the actual statements by each candidate translating them into cramerican. let me tell you, there were tons of cramericans on twitter. if you tweeted me about the debate, keep an idea on the ticker below. you may see your tweet. romney went right into a call from north american energy self-sufficiently, coal as an

endangered species under obama. listen. >> i like coal. i want to make sure we can continue to burn clean coal. people in the coal industry feel like it's getting crushed by your policies. >> lots of bozos went in and bought the coal stocks. all the coal stocks on. this wrong take away, people! coal's hostage to chinese demand more than u.s. use. that's not the case for the users of coal. the users, people. and that's why i said romney's giving you a heads up to buy american electric and power, two coal building utilities that have to spend far less retrofitting facilities under romney staff epa. i would be a seller of the console energies in the pea bodies in the strength. i take down union pacific. it is the carrier of clean coal. i would never recommend a company on this show with bad

fund am fundamentals. but they can be justified even with this sitting president. the pure coal plays are faltering fundamentally. there is no way i'm going to buy them based on some off handed debate patter. you want a stock that could go either way depending upon the election? consider this first statement by the president about corporate jets. >> why wouldn't we eliminate tax breaks for corporate jets? my attitude is if you have a corporate jet, can you probably afford to pay full freight, not get a special break for it. >> now watch romney on defense. >> finally, military. the president's re-elected you'll see dramatic cuts to our military. the secretary of defense said these would be even devastating. i will not cut our commitment to our military. >> if you're like me, you realize the general dynamics is at both of the issues. if president obama is going back

to that 2009 rhetoric, gulf stream jets could be hammered. when you think of big defense programs that could be boosted by a romney presidency, go no further than general dynamics. you can see a real hit to earnings if the budget cuts become a reality. romney is green lighting lockheed martin and gruman. now about half way into the debate romney gave us a fabulous short idea with this clip. >> you put $90 billion, like 50 years worth of breaks into solar and wind to solyndra and tesla and i had a friend who said you don't just pick winners and losers, you pick the losers. >> tesla on the kindness of the government. that kindness will be over if the white house gets a new occupant. i suggest buying tesla in november. 25s look juicy.

both candidates had a lot to say about oil. here's obama. >> the oil industry gets $4 billion a year in corporate welfare. now does anybody think that exxonmobil needs some extra money when they're making money every time you go to the pump? >> you that i exxon would have gotten hit today, right? it rallied 52 cents. some can argue that is because the market senses a romney victory. no way. exxon is just bigger than any president. >> your administration cut the number of permits and licenses in half. if i'm president, i'll double them. >> we aren't going to make money buying federal lands. but if more were opened, it would be a bonanza for the oil service industry. don't outthink this, people. schlumberger and national oil will get the most number of profits from expanded federal land drilling. obama is never a fan of the

banks. you don't want to overweight the group on his re-election. listen to this confused clip from romney. >> we have to have regulation in wall street. that's why i'd have regulation. but i wouldn't designate five banks as too big to fail and give them a blank check. >> that's what i call a head scratcher. speaking of unintended consequences, the big five are all up huge today. he was angry that obama coddled them. he talked about how dodd/frank imperiled community banks. all banks went up to day on perspective of romney swing and lighter regulatory scheme, i wouldn't chance it with the internationals. instead i'd stick with wells fargo viewed as domestic bank or go with really the true community banks, huntington bank, u.s. bancorp or heath. take a romney kicker any day of the week. throughout the night romney

repeatedly claimed he was the real friend of small business. even as we know saying something bad about small business has become new third rail of american politics. this comment is typical. >> there's a survey done of small businesses across the country. said what's been the effect of obama care on your hiring plans? and three quarters of them said it makes us less likely to hire people. >> all right. let's take him at face value for a moment. small business truly gets a boost if you elect romney, you need paychecks. the company's growth is in the hands of small business expansion. obama bears take note. you might be tempted to short paychecks on the democratic victory. but remember, you have to pay that bountiful dividend if you short the stock. along the same lines, romney claimed that obama's poll advise causing an increase in the use of food stamps. >> the proof of that is one out of six people in poverty. the proof of that is we've gone from 32 million on food stamps to 47 million on food stamps. >> again, if you take romney at

his word, you better dump family dollar and dollar general tomorrow. they have expanded aggressively into food to capture that gigantic increase of food stamp dollars. they've been using new freezer cases to bring food in. that's what was behind the breakout we saw the other day from family dollar's magnificent quarter. that big increase in the number of food stamp users might go away. much was made of this comment by romney -- >> i like pbs. i love big bird. i actually like you, too. >> all right. i'll make this point. stay away from the whole toy merchandise. when he bad back to school numbers. no money to be made here whatsoever. finally, we got the toughest call, the health care gamut. a lot of mistaking people scooped up all of the drug and health maintenance stocks today because of romney's perceived victory. and the common belief that if obama care goes right out the window when day one of the new presidency, it's good for big pharma and for health maintenance organizations. to which i say sorry.

that is very wrong. in truth, big pharma and the hmos are gigantic winners off obama care. they made their peace with it. they profited from it. some would say they co-opted it. that's why i warned on twitter not to get too caught up in the benefits of a possible obama care repeal. it may not be as bountiful as you wish them to be. you spmay have to sell the stoc that people bought today. obama care is so fabulous for big pharma and health care. sorry. finally, i tweeted one last tweet. under no circumstances regardless who have wins should you buy hewlett-packard. the bottom line on the debate, you can speculate on romney win after last night and adjust your portfolio accordingly. if you buy stocks with declining

fundamentals simply because you think they'll get a boost from romney or obama, you're taking on an unacceptable level of risk. buy good stocks cheaply. avoid expensive ones. good or bad. and you'll do well under either candidate. james in pennsylvania. james? >> hey, jim. first i'd like to thank you for the help that you give all the small investors and give us a little bit of an edge. and my question is kraft. i owned a certain number of kraft shares. i was under the impression that it was going to be three to one and you would get lesser of the lease. it turned to be the opposite. i wonder where you stand and should i get rid of mondolise and stick with kraft? they priced out about the same. >> the confusion involving this was monumental. the exchange got it wrong. kraft didn't handle it well. we like mdlz, when i say we, stephanie lincoln and i.

we also got kraft. we can do a full piece next week explaining the differences and what you should do. so if you want to wait for next week, we'll give you more on that. let's go to kathy in new jersey. >> kramer, what's up? i'm calling you from new jersey. this is the only book in my library today. i'm calling you about a little one. ring. i'm ready to take this one right to the moon. all i need is your blessing and some high octane fuel to get it there. what do you think, jimmy? >> i'm going to let you down. i looked at this last night. $250 million market cap. i said maybe i'd do something on it. you know what? it's too small. i don't want to mess it with. i hate to ever let one of our viewers down. but i'm not going to opine on this little company because, frankly, it is a battle royal that is too small for me to opine on. here on "mad money" we watch everything through the

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on a day when the price of oil spiked more than $3, fears in the middle east, that's not going to go away. let me remind you we don't have to be dependent on opec for our energy needs in this continent. in recent years we found tremendous amount of oil and gas here in north america places like the balkan shale and eagleford shale in texas. in fact, we have so much oil in this business that we don't have nearly enough pipeline infrastructure to transport the stuff to where it is needed from point a to point b. so they're using trains and trucks to do the shipping. i've been a fan of the pipeline

stocks on this show, as you know. sources of great income because they're like toll roads. they pay bountiful dividends. the pipeline business is, i think, maybe a multiple year growth industry. if you want a growth oriented pipeline play, look no further than enbridge, enb. one that carries 70% of all canada's oil exports in the united states. it has more than $30 billion worth of secured and potential projects on the draw board. not to mention creation of tens of thousands of jobs, maybe even more. something that governor romney suggested last night could happen if we simply unleash the power of the energy industry and the mobile infrastructure demands. they yield 2.8%, they have potential to boost 11% to 15% annually. they have already given you a 30% return since we spoke to the former ceo a little more than a year ago. for some bizarre reason there

were many doubters about the stock, not this guy. we want to know if the stock has more room to run. let's talk to al monico who just took out over as enbridge's ceo. welcome to "mad money." >> nice to be here. >> please sit down. thank you for coming on the show. i know you just took over. this is a great opportunity. >> glad to be here. >> you're the man of the hour, frankly. governor romney starts the debate basically talking about energy and saying how many jobs could be created. if anyone's going to be creating them, it's going to be your company. you're the dominant mover of oil. you know what i like to show you a little clip of what governor romney is saying. we'll do some fact checking here. >> my plan has five basic parties. one, get us energy independent, north american energy independent. that creates four million jobs. all right. four million jobs. that's a lot of jobs. that would create a lot of employment. possible? >> absolutely possible. absolutely. and the reason for that is because we're going to see

unprecedented growth in crude oil supply in north america and particularly in the united states. and theish to you day is we don't have good connectivity of that supply to markets. so that means we need a lot of new energy infrastructurement we're in the middle of that transformation. so the jobs will come. >> but there was a moment in your unbelievable presentation, page five of it, it says -- >> you read it? >> i didn't go to college to get stupid. the problem is this need comes at a time when we're seeing significant opposition to every kind of energy development. now is that a presidential thing or just the culture? >> that's the reality of the world today and our business. but we do have to work through that, jim. we will. i think people want to see sustainability in energy projects. in other words, they want to see it done right. i think that's fine. we have to work through those issues and we will. >> okay. now you want to go there.

today -- yesterday in the epa contacted you about the kalamazoo spill you had 843,000 gallons. they said you maybe have to do more work. so you're also have to balance the fact that pipelines do burst at time. >> absolutely. and it's something that obviously we try avoid. in fact, our target is to have zero leaks or zero spills. we received that notice yesterday from the epa. we're just looking at it now. you know, we're going to cooperate as we always have with the epa. and we'll work to do whatever work is necessary for the final work on that project. >> is there a feeling among the people at enbridge, a lot of people spoke at the analyst meeting, if you had a different president, the epa would be more willing to work with you and not against you? >> i don't think so, jim. >> really? >> the reality is both administrations, at least in my view, would have a strong need to -- and desire to encourage more energy independence in the united states and north america. so, frankly, i think we can work

with either administration very well. >> all right. now let's go into the growth prospect. >> sure. >> people always thought of enbridge as an income play. i feel with all the different finds, it is a multiple year growth play. you unveiled numbers if you get money to be able to secure the huge number of projects you have, you could be up to 12% compounded annual growth which is higher than every tech company i deal with. >> exactly. let me go into that for just a moment. basically what we're saying is we have $18 billion of firmly secured projects. and that means we have commercial underpinning. those are going forward. and with that alone, we'll be able to increase earnings per share. we expect over the next five years by 10% per year annually. now, we have another category of highly probable projects. if we add those to the mix which we have a good likelihood that we will, then certainly we'll be above 12%. >> if you have a five-year plan,

how many people do you have to hire? if you have all of the unsecu d unsecured, what do you have to have? >> internally we have 2500 people so far this year. now that's going to mean an additional 1,000 individuals to build the facilities we contract out. so there will be a lot more labor required in the years to come. >> okay. one last question. there's this bizarre thing and you detail it so perfectly. there is a $27 discount between canada to the gulf. now we have never seen west texas. we spoke after you did that project, we were supposed to have 112 brent and west texas, they were supposed to go away. what is with the differentials? >> we don't have enough connectivity yet. we're at 150,000 barrels per

day. over time that will differential will collapse as we bring on more pipeline capacity which is what we're doing now. >> and will it matter if we have utica turns out big. this is more of the bonanza that we're looking for? >> that's a great point. the reason is because the renaissance here is actually in light oil volumes. and those light oil volumes need to get the market. so for our part what we're trying to do is move the volumes to the eastern markets, just east of chicago, certainly ultimately to the u.s. gulf coast on the eastern gulf. so that will help to address the price discounting that we see on the light oil side. >> who is going to help california? costco said they can't get enough refined product. we don't have pipe out there, do we? >> the likelihood of getting pipes in california is very low. >> separate country. >> all right. president and ceo of enbridge. you want to learn? you want to really understand this industry? they gave you a full day presentation and it is brilliant.

thank you al monaco. great to see you, sir. >> thank you. >> i like this stock. coming up, crossfire. there's a shootout on the street over the future of one big name in defense. krayemer is going in the trenches and forming a battle plan. stick around. this could be your portfolio's new secret weapon. and later on good behavior. cramer's sell block can be an unforgiving time but stocks can emerge reformed. tonight, one tech security play has paid its debt to society. but is it now a buy? the verdict is just ahead. all coming up on "mad money." accolade overdrive.

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when two analysts say different things about the same stock on the same day, we don't have a beeb lidebate like the candidates did. we have ourselves a good old fashioned shootout. a metaphorical tool to the death until only one man is left standing. and in this instance you might say that's ironic. the stock that's the cause of this wall street gun fight is reliar alliant tech systems. the ultimate dealers in lead. to borrow a phrase in "the

magnificent seven," alliant has very little competition. so what happened here? monday morning jeffries downgraded them from buy to hold. and then over the price target for the $51 stock to $65. then a half hour, alliant is rewarded a major contract deal. they can run the small caliber ammunition plant in the world. it's a big deal. it's something that jeffries expected when they downgraded the stock. however, the analysts that cover the stock for cowen thought this was a game changerment they quickly upgraded the stock to outperform an hour after the contract win. all this before the open on monday morning. so who is right? let's start with the obvious caveat. alliant tech is a major contractor with huge exposure to the defense budget f we fall off the fiscal cliff, that won't be

good for the business. of course, as a maker of ammunition, a big part of the business is in decline as the war effort in afghanistan winds down. but as cowen points out, this stock has lagged a large cap defense names by an astounding 23% year to date. it's now 12 points off the high. none of the others look like that. it trades at 7.6 times next year's earnings estimates. it seems like all the major defense and budget related worries are, yes, baked into the stock market. if they think alliant tech has room to play catchup now that big lake city contractor that is behind them. they think that atk can outperform by 20% over the next three to six months without much in the way of down side risk because the stock is so cheap. they believe that worries about the lake city contract were keeping the stock down. that's a big part of the business. the deal can be worth $2 billion over the next ten years. if they lost the contract, it wouldn't have been a huge hit to

atk's earnings. the company doesn't have any other major contracts expiring in the near future where it has to compete for business. investors have much less to worry about. confidence, now the big risk, it's off the table. we can now focus on atk's monster buy back, 175 million repurchase authorization. plus, if obama gets re-elected, they expect the civilian side to get a major boost as regular people, yes, stockpile ammo. not making it up. what happens if the election in 2008, on the other hand if, romney wins, he wants to increase spending to me. given all the factors, i can see why cowen believes that atk can outperform by 20%. you make a pretty compelling case that the stock is ready to play catchup. what about the downgrade? on one hand, jeffries had the bad luck of coming out with this research right before the army reupped that contract. so timing, that could have been better. however, the jeffries downgrade

wasn't all about alliant's ammo business. they have an aerospace business. and they make spacecraft components for nasa. it's this side of the business that jeffries is truly worried about. the research reports feel like two duels shooting it out. but right past each other, jeffries rated alliant a buy based on catalysts related to the space launch system i mentioned. the cast lifts have come and gone and didn't play out as jeffries expected. plus, jeffries is concerned about the nasa budget going forward. in other words, the thesis didn't play out the way they hoped. so they're being disciplined and backing away from the wreck. that's what good investment is about. however, after we learned about atk's big lake city contract, it hit me over the head. this is good. and then jeffries came out with another note where they said it didn't change their view. the reason, they're worried that alliant had to cut pricing in order to win the contract. and they're also concerned about declining u.s. presence in afghanistan and shrinking head count. these are reasonable concerns. i think they make more sense if

atk was trading $61 rather than $51. a lot of the worries are in the stock. it is really intriguing because after this kurd, 3m announced they are buying body armor on monday. i can see a larger defense play picking alliant tech. it makes too much sense for this company to remain independent. i think it will be bought. alliant tech is too cheap to ignore now that major risk that had everybody worried about is a thing of the past. i think thecowen are correct. as much as we hope it's not the case, it's not like we're going to beat plow shares with the tinder box in the middle east getting hotter, not colder since the arab spring began. pam in massachusetts? pam? >> jim, i'm a first time caller and long time viewerment my question is about boeing. i've been trading it and it's been trading and it's $7 to $9 for the last two months.

my questions are, is it being affected by the labor dispute of potential cut in the defense budget or just delays with the dream liner? do you see a catalyst near term to make it forge ahead? >> i would say that the research director of my company have gone over this boeing. we did it five times today. we do it two or three times every day. if i had hair, i would have pulled it out on this. i think it is the contract and the negotiations and also the fiscal cliff. i think when this company reports it's going to have an outstanding quarter. boy, it is a -- house of pain -- until we get there. dan in new york. dan? >> hi, jim. how you doing? >> not bad, thank you. how about you? >> very good. i'm a 31-year retired teacher of global studies and economics from the beautiful town of washingtonville in upstate new york. >> man, you got the life. >> i do. i do. and i have a qui question for you. fwz a defense stock that i've oenld for a number of years, curtis wright. what do you feel the future of

curtis wright will be if obama retains the presidency or if gop candidate mitt romney wins the position? >> i think they have enough that is not defense for it to carry through. i have to tell you something, this has been a historically cheap stock. i've always expected one day it would be snapped up. it never has. it's inexpensive so i'm not concerned about it. atk may be ready for takeoff. and tonight's analyst shootout, i'm agreeing with the bulls at cowen. more importantly, i'm saying stay tuned for the lightning round. >> politics is a sport.

it is time for the lightning round. are you ready? lightning round. we start with mike in illinois. mark? >> cramer, boo-yah. >> boo-yah, chief. >> what do you think about bp? >> take a pass, my friend. there are so many other better oil companies. i like stat oil more than that. it's got growth without that kind of profile, so to speak. how about tony in indiana?

tony? >> hey, jim. a big indiana university college school of business boo-yah. >> how much do we like that? go ahead? >> impact laboratories. ipxl in early august. where do you see it going from here? >> you know, you're so rigorous out there. i know that if i even try to comp this, you'll be all over me. i'm going to take a pass and do more work on it. tom in florida, please tom? >> jimmy, panhandle boo-yah to you. >> oh, man. great 98 boo-yah. right back at you, including ft. walton beach. >> that's where we're at. >> i knew it! >> last week you talked about boardwalk pipeline and you said it was one of your favorites. now they did this secondary and diluted a little bit. what are we going to do? >> i think we're fine. i think you should buy more boardwalk. it's the best in show. incredibly well run and i like it. i want to do brandon in north carolina. brandon? >> mr. cramer, boo-yah from

research, north carolina. >> brain trust. brain trust. eric wiseman lives in north carolina now. he's pretty cool. what's up? >> caterpillar, cat. >> i need more data. it's too hard. it's like getting stuck in the $80, $90 range. ashy in california? >> mr. cramer, i want to give you a big boo-yah. >> well, good. maybe we can -- maybe someone can tell rivers he plays for my fantasy team and delivers. or call norv turner. what is the stock? >> the stock today is sirius satellite radio. bfa gave merrill lynch put a $3.7 aprice on it. >> i thought that was wrong. i think liberty media could be able to cap your top here. i like sirius. i do not like the way they just casually threw him under the

m-106 which is a bus. i like the stock but i think it's capped. >> carol in new hampshire. >> hi, jim cramer. boo-yah. >> boo-yah. >> chicago bridge and iron? >> i think this is a strong quarter. you know what? buy, buy, buy. i need to do more work. but it's got one nasty chart. let's go to ellie in california. >> hi, jim. boo-yah! >> boo-yah, ellie. >> i have a question about mlmx. >> we walked away it from. we had a really big game. we didn't like the change. there is a lot of other plays. we declared ourselves victorious. and we moved on. i need to go to ken in california. ken? >> ken? yo-yo? ken may be no show. like molly no show in the movie "the gauntlet." let's go to charlotte in

florida. charlotte? >> jim, the transaction between eden and cooper industries? good or bad? >> that closes october 26th. that's when i believe immedia immediately eaton will prevail. that is a stock is a buy, buy, buy. justin in south carolina. how are you? >> how are you? >> i'm doing awesome, man. hey, my question today is about taiwan semiconductors. trades tsm. hit a new 52-week high today. and i hold this since about 2008. i'm considering taking some profit. >> i suggest that justin, it will be justified to get profits. all the semiconductors are down. this one is too high. i'm saying justify it and go. that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the "lightning

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when you got a kplp that can't seem to pull its own weight, a real lagger that has been a serial disappointer, the buck stops with the ceo. that's why we love it on "mad money" when a loser ceo gets fired and replaced with somebody who seems to know what he's doing. how important is it to have a decent ceo? say symantec. it has been a real dog for ages. i have disliked for as long as i can remember. even though cyber security is major, symantec simply not able

to deliver. in fact, in times it felt like this company couldn't get anything right. they spent nearly $3 billion in that positions. the company has barely been able to grow the revenues. you get good revenue growth. what's the point? but there are more problems, too. symantec has a cost structure that is much more expensive than the peers. it is less targeted at specific markets. and it just doesn't have the scale to compete aggressively against the big tech companies that have security as a side light. as a result, it's been stuck in the mid single digits for years, trading side ways ever since the great recession while the peers have all gone much higher. however, even though all the problems the worst thing about symantec is something else entirely. what really made this stock uninvestable is the fact that the management seemed complaisant and the board of directors is self satisfied with the clearly unsatisfactory status quo. the board has been resistant to

overtures by investors who take large positions in the stock and had smart, serious plans to overhaul the company. the board didn't care. now symantec had been crushed earlier this year, fell from the highs from 19 in april to 13 and change by the end of july. the bulls had lost the toll live. but then symantec's board of directors did their darn jobs. they ousted the ceo and they replaced him with steve bennett, a board member that has taken over as permanent ceo. it was the ceo in another company. the company grew from $1 billion in sales to $2.7 billion in sales. he also knows thou increase margins. in the first five years as intuit's ceo, they grew. bennett is the ceo that symantec needs. he is saying all the rig things. in the first day on the job, he said he conducted 90 to 120 day

review of symantec. he wants to come in there and figure out what needs to be changed, throw out what doesn't work. bennett's words were music to the market's ears. in response, they went up in a straight line. shot from $13 to $17 within two weeks. 19 after six weeks. i've been waiting. even better, within a week of taking the ceo job, bennett disclosed he made a big insider purchase. he bought 89,300 shares. talk about a morale booster. bennett wouldn't be spending $1.4 billion of stock if he didn't think the company was going to turn around. he would spend $100,000 but not $1.4. now since the old ceo got the ax, we've been waiting for them to give us decent pull back so i could tell that you you should buy it without feeling like you're chasing it. in the last few weeks, that pull back arrived. the stock is now to $18 which is why i'm releasing it from the sell block and tell that you symantec is indeed a buy. how much difference can one man

make? hasn't symantec been a dog for years? it's not replacing the ceo fixes all the company's problems. but does it fix the biggest problem, complaisancy. it wasn't that it was a loser. it was a management system that said i was okay to be a loser. there are a lot of ways that they can make things better. the previous guy didn't have the will or desire to shake things up. steve bennett does. that makes all the difference. there are a a ton of areas where bennett can take out costs and in part by changing the unwielding compensation structure. he can focus away from the personal computer. we know what that's doing. and if bennett really wants to unlock valley, he can buy or spin off the enterprises businesses that the company doesn't get enough credit for. i like the breakup value here. symantec reports earnings on october 24th. i think you should build position slowly buying only into

weakness. fit gets hit after the quarter, i would buy more. bottom line, when you see a new mover and shaker taking over the helm of a company that's been a real dog and thn see a monster open market once the new ceo steps in, it's time to give the stock a second look. and that's why i'm releasing symantec from the sell block and telling that you the stock is now a buy thanks to the strength of the new ceo and the opportunities of one complaisant company that is now a walk in from a rip van winkle like slumber. "mad money" is back after the break.

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they call it the reality distortion field. sthaz what people who worked with steve jobs knew what happen when he made up whatever he wanted. you knew you were getting snowed by jobs when he said it was possible to come out with the impossible in a few weeks time or praise someone he knew he was going to fire that day.

you knew when he hated someone, he may love him the next day. it was just his way. he succeeded so often. and was right so often. and had a crystal clear image and view of what he knew the customer wanted even if the customer didn't know herself which was far more often the case than not. this morning on squawk on the street we interviewed meg whitman, ceo of hewlett-packard. and to crib from the one of the greatest debate lines, we knew steve jobs and meg whitman, you're no steve jobs. her reality was certainly distorted in my opinion. unlike jobs, there's no particular reason to believe that alas her distorted reality will ever come true. first, i found this morning's interview painful. maybe because debate talk was in the eejer, maybe because whitman tried and fail to be governor of california. the ceo came up as a yes pol. i'm willing to answer any question about how she could save hewlett-packard from going

away. she talked the cheerleader game about the 320,000 dedicated hewlett-packard employees which by my count may be 100,000 too many. she didn't answer how he had can stop apple. she didn't make a real case for hardware models. she didn't explain how things could have gotten so awry or why the generation is not enthralled with her products. and ruled out a wait until next year turn by saying it will be 2014 before we see any positive results from the company. i hope that reality isn't distorted, too. there is no reason for a company to exist just because it has a long history of existing. the roles of tech companies are littered with castoffs that thought they had a right to exist, companies like wang, control data, nortel, they were storied, they were valuable. then they were irrelevant. go on. right now we're seeing whole companies go away, companies like research in motion, nokia which is apparently trying to sell the equipment to the family

jewels to headquarters and eastman kodak which may soon not exist. i will go as far to say that hewlett-packard may be suffering through a kodak moment. why is that so hard to fathom? like hewlett-packard, kodak was one of the most important tech companies in the world, best cameras, printing technology, best pharmaceuticals and best chemicals. one by one it sold off the gems that failed to exploit them down to the closing of the innovative printer line. sound familiar? i had high hopes i might be able to see a meg whitman vision. reality got distorted but in a bad way, not a good one. i reiterate, under obama or under romney, there is no reason to own hewlett-packard. stay with cramer. accolade overdrive.

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